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It is the spring of their first year in high school. Oumae Kumiko, who was in a brass band in middle school, goes to check out the brass band club together with her classmates, Katou Hazuki and Kawashima Sapphire. There, Kumiko happens to run into her former classmate, Kousaka Reina. Although Hazuki and Sapphire are dead set on joining the brass band club, Kumiko doesn't want to take the plunge. She still remembers the incident with Reina during the brass band contest in middle school...

The characters have the typical KyoAni moe-ness to them, I like it so far. But this feels like it's even slower paced than K-On season 2. So little happened and it's already ep.3. Also the sensei is an ass. He's the worse type of teacher. They know their stuff, but can't be bothered to actually teach the students. There are obviously slackers in the group, but you don't just write off the whole group. You either motivate the slackers or you focus on the motivated students and let the slacker just not play in the festival. I don't expect him to be Sawa-chan sensei, but damn. I hope as the story goes on he'll be changed by the Kumiko and gang, otherwise it'll be a bad show.

I stand by my original comment, Taki is a very bad teacher. He knows his stuff, but he totally disregards how his students feel. He just treats them as a mean to win the competition. In addition to learning how to teach his students, he needs to learn how to let his student down. In the last episode we see that he just let Reina battle it out with Kaori, that's a very public way for Kaori to fail, I'm surprised Kaori didn't just quit the band. Same with this episode, he could've told Kumiko privately instead of humiliating her in front of everyone.

I stand by my original comment, Taki is a very bad teacher. He knows his stuff, but he totally disregards how his students feel. He just treats them as a mean to win the competition. In addition to learning how to teach his students, he needs to learn how to let his student down. In the last episode we see that he just let Reina battle it out with Kaori, that's a very public way for Kaori to fail, I'm surprised Kaori didn't just quit the band. Same with this episode, he could've told Kumiko privately instead of humiliating her in front of everyone.

Well...

SPOILER

He did warn them in an earlier episode that if they want to participate in the competition that preparations won't be easy or fun...